BURGLARS HANDICAPPED.
TEAR GAS AS PREVENTIVE. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. April 10 Tears are the underlying method of a new device to prevent bank burglaries in Chicago. Many banks throughout the country have installed a system whereby tear gas is released whenever a vault is tampered with. A score of bandit gangs drilled safes recently, and found that all they could do was to keep crying, and that the only remedy was to rush into the open air. The Orange State bank in a Chicago suburb was attacked, and dense fumes quickly permeated the building, so that the weeping bandits were forced •to leap into a waiting motor-car, leaving their ' safe-breaking tools and cash, behind them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 9
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